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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 84 No. 23
Read the Cover StoryNATION
With Courage & Good Sense
(The Nation / DEFENSE)
Erasing the Obsolete (The Nation)
The Firebee (The Nation)
Off the Chest & into the Fire (The Nation / THE ADMINISTRATION)
In Remembrance (The Nation)
All Around the Park (The Nation / THE PRESIDENCY)
The Others (The Nation)
Filling Hubert's Shoes (The Nation / THE CONGRESS)
"Do Not Despair" (The Nation / CIVIL RIGHTS)
WORLD
The Hostages
(The World / THE CONGO)
Recon & Retaliation (The World / LAOS)
Operation Backfire (The World / SOUTH VIET NAM)
The Bamboo Bomb (The World / INDONESIA)
A Treatment for Tularemia & A Promotion for the Cops (The World / RUSSIA)
The Spy Who Came In from the Trunk (The World / ESPIONAGE)
Underprivileged M.P.s (The World / GREAT BRITAIN)
The Princely Pauper (The World)
The Water War (The World / MIDDLE EAST)
Peace Corps Everywhere (The World / FOREIGN AID)
Return & Fall of the Native (The World / GREECE)
Cheddi Against the Field (The Hemisphere / BRITISH GUIANA)
Where the Crooks Can't Go (The Hemisphere / BRAZIL)
A Warning to Renegades (The Hemisphere / HAITI)
A Wel-Fairy Tale (The Hemisphere / URUGUAY)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
A Lift from Depression
(Medicine / AWARDS)
The Blue-Red Test for Trouble (Medicine / METABOLIC DISORDERS)
Indicting Krebiozen (Medicine / CANCER)
SOCIETY
Out of the Rocker
(Modern Living / FASHION)
Darien's Dolce Vita (Modern Living / YOUTH)
Thumb-Print Economics (Modern Living / THE FUTURE)
PRESS
New Record for Stubbornness
(The Press / NEWSPAPERS)
Working Journalist (The Press)
Political Ad of the Week (The Press)
RELIGION
The Pope Runs the Church
(THE VATICAN COUNCIL) A New Way of Worship (ROMAN CATHOLICS)
Off Broadway (EPISCOPALIANS)
SPORT
Where the Money Will Go
(COLLEGE FOOTBALL) Who Won (SCOREBOARD)
All Alone & Kinda Slow (TRACK & FIELD)
BUSINESS
The Master Technicians
(U.S. Business / CORPORATIONS)
Tribute to Perseverance (World Business / WORLD TRADE)
Secrecy Is Golden (World Business / SWITZERLAND)
Higher & Higher Cuisine (World Business / FRANCE)
EDUCATION
Where an Orange Is a Textbook
(PUBLIC SCHOOLS) Fight for Wake Forest (COLLEGES)
LAW
Trial by Newspaper
(The Law / CRIMINAL JUSTICE)
A Dreyfus of Drunks (The Law)
Craps on Credit (The Law / CONTRACTS)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
TELEVISION
(Time Listings)
Herr Doktor (Music / CONDUCTORS)
The Nashville Sound (Music / COUNTRY MUSIC)
Airborne Museum (Art / ARCHITECTURE)
Time of the Assassins (Art / ARTISTS)
Mme. Don Ton (Art / DEALERS)
The Nichols Touch (Show Business / BROADWAY)
She Who Is Ella (Show Business / SINGERS)
The Guillotine Complex (The Theater)
Punch & Judy Revisited (The Theater)
Chip-Happy Harpy (Cinema)
Tribute to Winnie (Cinema)
Androgynous Farce (Cinema)
Servant Problem (Cinema)
Scheherazade's Thousandth (Books)
The Petty Demon (Books)
The Knowing Virgin (Books)
The Champion Failure (Books)
The Cape of Delusion (Books)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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TO OUR READERS
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(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
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Who Will Inherit Joel Stein's Kid?
Cartoons of the Week
The Weekly Acoustic News
Asterix at 50: The Comic Hero Conquers the World
Silvio Berlusconi and the Politics of Sex
Pictures of the Week
Twilight Sequel New Moon Sets Records at the Box Office
Short List: TIME's Weekly Critics' Picks